WoRMS taxon details
Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 207418
AphiaID: 207418
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Echinopora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Echinopora Lamarck, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echinopora carduus Klunzinger, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N., Pichon, M. & Wijsman-Best, M. 1977. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series 3: 1–233. [details] additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Xarifia dispar Humes, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Xarifia dispar Humes, 1962 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Cephalocheres flagellatus Kim I.H., 2010 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are usually encrusting or form thick leaves. They commonly develop a degree of branching, often from an uppermost edge of an encrusting or leafy plate. Calices are 4 to 7 mm in diameter, and are spaced less than a corallite diameter apart. Costae run between septa and are beaded. There are no, or very reduced, paliform lobes. This is a very common species. It is found on the reef flat in severe environmental conditions and on both exposed and turbid reef slopes at all depths to over 30 m. (Sheppard, 1998 ). Colonies are laminar, bifacial, sometimes forming contorted branches. Corallites have calices 3.5-4.5 mm in diameter. Columellae are large, and paliform lobes are not well developed. Primary septa may be very thick and are always exsert. Colour: pale cream to dark brown or green. Abundance: usually uncommon (Veron, 1986). Generally forms encrusting plates, though may occur as contorted branches with irregularly spaced, obvious and prominent corallites (7 mm across). Colour: varies from cream to dark brown, green or bluish-grey. Habitat: diverse (Richmond, 1997). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Remark: Original combination in Sheppard (1998). Type locality: "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207418 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207418 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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